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LAMB v. HOPKINS

No. 123, September Term, 1983.

303 Md. 236 (1985)

492 A.2d 1297

ALAN C. LAMB ET AL. v. ARNOLD J. HOPKINS ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 5, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burt M. Kahn, Hyattsville, (Leo Howard Lubow, Walter E. Laake, Jr. and Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, Hyattsville, on brief), for appellant.

Diana G. Motz and Alan D. Eason, Asst. Attys. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Emory A. Plitt Jr. and Martha H. Somerville, Asst. and Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., respectively, Baltimore, on brief, for appellees.

Argued before SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON, RODOWSKY and COUCH, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

COLE, Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether a probation officer who fails to report a probationer's violation to the sentencing court owes any duty to an individual injured by the negligence of the probationer.

Because this case reaches us on demurrer,1 we are required to accept as true all well-pleaded material facts in the declaration and any reasonable inferences that may be drawn therefrom. Tadjer...

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